Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A study ...
Q. I know tortoises live on land. Does that mean box turtles (which also live on land) are tortoises? How many true tortoises are there, what parts of the world do they live in and how big do they get ...
Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...
Previously, only one other tortoise, a large male loner, had been found there in 1906 by explorer Rollo Beck. Scientists had thought this animal was the last of the "fantastic giant tortoise," or ...
ENGLE, N.M. — While the average lifespan of North America’s largest and most rare tortoise species is unknown, biologists have said it could span upward of a century. So saving the endangered species ...
SAN ANTONIO – One of the largest tortoise species in the world will soon call SeaWorld San Antonio home. The Aldabra tortoise is found naturally on Aldabra Island, one of the Seychelles islands in the ...
A species of tortoise long believed extinct has been found alive and well on the Galápagos Islands. The reptile, named Fernanda after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified ...
An ESF scientist is part of a research team that has discovered there are two species of giant tortoises — not just one, as had been long believed — living on the island of Santa Cruz in the center of ...
Scientists say a tortoise discovered in 2019 on the Galapagos Islands belongs to a species considered extinct more than 100 years ago. The single female tortoise belongs to the species Chelonoidis ...
Two conservation groups Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging a decision by federal wildlife officials to reject listing gopher tortoises as endangered or threatened species, saying the burrowing ...
Thousands of vote-by-mail ballots about to be mailed out in Orange County at the supervisor of elections office. Read full article: What ’curing’ a vote-by-mail ballot means and how to check if yours ...
Federal wildlife officials say the threatened gopher tortoise does not need protections under the Endangered Species Act in most parts of Alabama, but wildlife advocates say the decision is ...
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